Life-boat.



No. 629,365. I

- J. HUEBNEB.

LIFE'BOAT.

(Lpplicatinn filed. Dec. 21, 1896. Renewed Jun. 25, 1899.)

(No Iodei.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS nUEBNER, or MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

LIFE-BOAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,365, dated July 25,1899.

Original application filed December 5, 1895, Serial No. 571,099. Divided and this applioation filed December 21, 1896.

i i Renewed Iannary25, 1899. Serial No. 703,390. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JULIUS HUEBNER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Life-Boats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

v My invention has for its object to insure tight closing of sliding doors for entrances in a life-boat housing; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts'hereinafter set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed, this application being adivision of one filed' by me December 5, 1895, Serial No. 571,099, and subsequentlyallowed.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a transverse sectional view ofa life-boat embodying my improvements, and Fig. 2 a detail longitudinal section on the plane indicated by line 2 2 in the preceding figure.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents the hull of a life-boat, provided with wave-fenders B along its sides. The hull is housed over, and the sides of the housing are provided with entrances, each of which is closed by a sliding door 0, arranged in suitable guides. I

Rollers b may be located in each lower guide to oppose the corresponding edge of a door 0 and facilitate movement of the latter.

In pivotal connection with lateral ears 0 of plates D, made fast at their ends inside the housing, are arms E, that have forked outer ends, in which antifriction-rollers d are journale'd, and a hand-rodF is joined to the inner ends of'all the arms in each series.

" A door C having been run along in its guides to close an entrance in the boat-housing it may be bound and held tight against its outer stops by the pressure of antifriction-rollers d, exerted thereon incidental to a movement of hand-rods F, that will cause swing of arms E on their pivots in the proper direction, said handq-ods being on dead-center at the completion of the operation, as herein shown The door being held closed in the manner specified, it will exclude water that might otherwise find its way into the boat.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A life-boat housing provided with en trances, sliding doors for the entrances, piv otal arms arranged in series and provided with 'autifriction-rollers op posing inner sides of the doors and a hand-rod connecting each series of said arms.

2. A life-boat housing provided with entrances; sliding doors for the entrances, plates connecting the door-guides inside the housing, arms in pivotal connection with theplates, antifriction-rollers connected to outerends of the arms to bear against inner sides of the doors, and hand-rods connecting the inner ends of the arms in each series.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

JULIUS HUEBNER.

' \Vitnesses; N. E. OLIPHnNT, PAUL HUEBNER. 

